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Circeris: *standing along the corridors. Staring at the blank walls of the gallery...
Circeris: caught up between staying in front of the pc and resting my eyes...
Dark Raivenn: sprayed my indoor plants with this cat spray to keep my two cats away from them and now the air around the house "taste" bitter. Yuck!
Dark Raivenn: changed the background and font colour. I think the current pick is easier to read.
Circeris: where? the default is grey already.
Dark Raivenn: still cant figure out how to have the text color on the main post not be too white to lessen the contrast with the black background. Anybody has any ideas?
Dark Raivenn: done with school for now. So I have the entire spring and summer to go and put life back on this journal. I miss this place.
Circeris: Made the text brighter.
Circeris: Tahoma. It's neat
Dark Raivenn: @ Circeris : new look is better. What font did you use?
Robin: That sounds great. We'll all try to write more. I honestly didn't think anyone would reply. But thank you. You've made my morning. A morning that would otherwise have been uneventful and dissappointing. Well let's keep in touch shall we?
Circeris: repainting the webjournal.....
Circeris: the presentation wasn't that grand, but the defense was alright...., I miss it here
Dark Raivenn: Ugh. I so dont feel like going to work today. CS how did your project defense go?
Dark Raivenn: pending post to be uploaded sometime before I head to bed at 12 midnight Atlantic Time.
Dark Raivenn: waiting for the site construction to be done
Dark Raivenn: Bécquer post done
Dark Raivenn: pending post clue: becquer, neruda y lorka......
Dark Raivenn: back
Dark Raivenn: I will be on vacation and will be back around the 25th or 26th.
Circeris: ......I'm back, and would be updating soon.
Dark Raivenn: My net connection is back up while Circeris is still pending repair
Dark Raivenn: regular postings will be done when Circeris pc is fixed and my net connection stops being flaky. Hopefully, sometime this week.
Azodnem: Great blog. Love the look.
Circeris: ...watching all Jim Henson's "Storyteller" on youtube. So far, i've seen 'the true bride' and 'the heartless giant'. I've read them before too......these clips are nice
Dark Raivenn: --update-- I will be working on the pending fairy tale post.
Circeris: got a wider space to run around now....
Not Orpheus: I'll always consider myself lucky that my mother forced all the amazing dark writers. The first book she ever gave me (apart from Shakespeare) was Poppy Z Brite. ^_^
Dark Raivenn: Oh, me and my sister can be quite obsessive too. So welcome to the obsessive club.
Not Orpheus: Anything made by H.P. Lovecraft is worth looking into. I have all versions and reprints of his books. Obsessive fan, I know.
Circeris: Hm, Id look up that Cthulhu Tarot set...thanks for dropping by Not Orpheus. +_,+ . come by anytime alright
Not Orpheus: The Call of Cthulhu Tarot set is way better... Of course, I am biased since I've been a fan for 20 years... ^_^
Dark Raivenn: @Daedalus -- you are still doing that awww *hugs* I'll probably be worse than you if I have to do that
daedalus: buffy tarot cards ehh... my brain is about to implode with axiomic foundationalism
Deadlywhisper: lol.. I will update my blog as soon as I am done my last exam, been really busy. Hope to see you before I go back home.
Dark Raivenn: reading list for SS 08 to be posted soon
Dark Raivenn: I want the wasp gone today!
Deadlywhisper: Thanks for the comment, I hope we get to see each other before I leave.
Circeris: I can't stop staring at our fence...hope to finish designing our Lounge soon...
Circeris: Link to mainpage above:Under --Links--
Circeris: Put up our fence...See mainpage. ~raiveris.cjb.net
Dark Raivenn: Davey said he got me the Zafra 8 already. So sis you dont need to get it for me save the money, buy anything cute and dark that you fancy
Dark Raivenn: to those that doesn't know where the Raiveris gallery is .. click on "my website raiveris" on top then go to the DarkHall and go straight. This place can be a maze at times
Circeris: updated the Sketch page inside Raiveris gallery
Dark Raivenn: to CS: send me the DeathNote book and Twisted 8 by Jessica Zafra dali!!!
Circeris: I like the fairy bags too..., i like the fairy bags, i like the fairy bags, i like the fairy bags, i like the fairy bags, i like the fairy bags... O_O
Circeris: how akin are your feelings to mine...
Dark Raivenn: papers etc are done! Im back mwahahahaha
Dark Raivenn: these days Im busy with papers that I need to go write .

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Sunday, June 21st 2009

1:05 PM (12 days, 22h, 0min ago)

Site Update

  • Mood/Mindframe:
  • Music: mudvayne - nothing to gein
The Gallery is now open...
For new visitors, go through the Dark Hall, go straight and enter the center door.


www.raiveris.co.cc

  

Hanged:
Angels & Demons collection
Dark digi-art collection
Dark Arts collection






~will put up more and refurnish the old rooms
from before as we build the gallery.




~Circeris
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Saturday, June 20th 2009

2:46 PM (13 days, 20h, 19min ago)

Lifting gloomy clouds

  • Music: Sopor Aeternus - Consider this: the true meaning of love

Ramblings:

I just deleted all of the pictures on my Blackberry without transferring it to my computer. That means , at least four pending entries to be posted on Raiveris can’t be uploaded since I don’t have the pictures that goes along with it. Obviously, I am not  happy and can’t believe that I was that careless.

So I need to go think and do things to lift this gloomy mood up. I deleted pics from that museum that featured female shoes that were used around the 18th  century in really really good condition.  ( I got to stop thinking about exactly what did I manage to delete)

Here is an anime that I will start watching in order to lift this black cloud up or I will be sulking the entire weekend.








Surely vampires should not fail to cheer me up. Let’s just hope this anime is good.


Yo se
Circeris is gloomy as well, well gloomier than usual. (since we both like a healthy level of gloom hovering around us ) Pienso que this is more than the healthy dose.

A video that should help lift her mood.









Oh and the link for the first Vampire Knight episode is here




bits and pieces:

now let me put you to the test
how often have I heard these words

"I love you so much, dearest dear,
that I would die for you, right now , right here!"

Sure, doing this you're sitting pretty,
but I say: Piss on it,

-Sopor Aeternus





   ~Dark Raivenn~


             

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Sunday, June 14th 2009

1:38 AM (20 days, 9h, 26min ago)

live to play

  • Music: cof



Just one of the old bloody games I still haven't finished yet
for backing up and reformatting our computer a lot,
and with my programming projects to get busy about.
Well I'm back in it now.





~Circeris

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Sunday, June 7th 2009

10:52 PM (26 days, 12h, 13min ago)

Complicated Lobsters

  • Mood/Mindframe: Sulky
  • Music: Sopor Aeternus - Dead Souls


Ramblings:





               Chaos and I decided to do something new since its the weekend. I suggested we try and have lobster for dinner which he agreed to.  So we bought three medium sized lobster from the grocery. The guy just placed all three in a clear plastic bag. So there I was all happy over the prospect of having lobster for dinner when he suddenly asks while driving home , “how do they breathe like that in the bag?”.  I don’t know and right now I don’t care how they breathe.

The rest of the conversation looks like this:

Upon arriving home and placing it on the counter top

Chaos:  Maybe we should look up the most humane way of cooking them.
Dark Raivenn:  What do you mean , most humane way of cooking? 
Chaos:  Well we are killing it and I don’t want to kill it.
Dark Raivenn:  But I want to eat lobsters for dinner, what does that make me?  A killer?!
Chaos: How about you cook it then
Dark Raivenn: *glares* it’s not hard, you just boil them
Chaos: But we are killing it , how about we do it the least painful way possible. Maybe you should look it up on the net
Dark Raivenn:  You know you are “killing” indirectly with everything you consume throughout your lifetime  (I can’t believe I am having a killing discussion when all I want is a good dinner)
Chaos: Yes, but not directly. You know I’ve always wanted to be a zoologist when I was a kid because I love animals.
Dark Raivenn: FINE! I’ll look it up. Ugh

Few seconds later

Dark Raivenn: Here is a sheet of paper with instructions on how to cook them.  There is also a discussion there about how some people argue that the nervous system of a lobster is too simple for it to any pain at all like insects.   *sighs* There is also a “relaxation technique” there that says you should try freezing them a bit for 5-10 minutes in the fridge to numb them. It produces the lowest number of tail flicks upon insertion into the boiling water was thought to mean that the lobster felt less pain. (why am I going through this... All I want is a good lobster dinner)

Chaos: *picks up the bag and looks seriously at it * I am sorry your dinner
Dark Raivenn:  Great now I feel guilty for wanting to eat them


10 minutes later

Chaos: *looks at the bag* But they are still moving!
Dark Raivenn: Of course they are , they are alive! It said freeze a bit not make it into an unmovable block of ice.
--
Dark Raivenn:  *has a concerned look on her face*
Well, you might want to leave the kitchen while this is cooking since its dying right now for sure. Didn’t Colin and Thuy said that they could hear tiny lobster screams when they start cooking lobsters? 

Chaos: *looks at the pot* Cant you see tiny lobsters with halos floating away from the pot right now. We killed it.

Dark Raivenn:  What?! So now you believe in god and a heaven?! *exasperated*   

Chaos:  It was a joke!

Dark Raivenn: How about I go boil you instead

  
          So dinner went fine but after all that drama I doubt I would want to go “kill” a lobster (Chaos’ words) and give them halos again just because I wanted a good dinner. How many people on earth go through discussions about god, heaven, humanity, his childhood dream etc. over before finally getting to eat dinner.
 


bits and pieces:
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring
for a long time in a shop window. You many love it when you
get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else
in the house.

Jean Kerr




~Dark Raivenn~

              

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Wednesday, June 3rd 2009

12:55 PM (30 days, 22h, 10min ago)

Site Update.

  • Mood/Mindframe: ---


New access to site is now open.


www.raiveris.co.cc








~Circeris
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Saturday, May 30th 2009

6:17 PM (34 days, 16h, 48min ago)

Silent moments.

  • Mood/Mindframe: shut up.
  • Music: mudvayne - nothing to gein


Make it real loud when you play your music loud...
Seeping through your veins.
Then won't it make you throb when
you listen to them again...



...I could not feel anything right at the moment than this throbbing.





~Circeris

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Thursday, May 28th 2009

4:41 AM (37 days, 6h, 24min ago)

...muses,

  • Mood/Mindframe: soothing me
  • Music: mudvayne
when I can't find my words.

 






~Circeris
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Sunday, April 26th 2009

4:03 PM (68 days, 19h, 2min ago)

Feeling queasy

  • Mood/Mindframe: confused
  • Music: nada


Random things that caught my interest:



 I am glad I already had breakfast way before I stumbled on this video. I know some of my friends would have a lot to say about this. We were taught as kids to finish everything in our plates and were told about the starving people in Africa etc.

Growing up middle class, we knew there are poor people, not just in Philippines but the entire world. However, the reality of that does not really hit you until you see this video. At least it is for me and I know to a couple of other friends as well.

 I never knew this existed nor was I aware that people are doing this. I am at lost for words and I think it might take me a while to start being coherent about my thoughts concerning this issue. What I do no understand is aside from feeling queasy I also feel guilt , over what I don't know exactly.


For now

Here is something to think about.


 bits and pieces:

DR: (shouting at Chaos from the 1st floor) Hunny! we need tp for the downstairs bathroom.
Chaos: (shouting back from the 2nd floor)  WHAT?????
DR:  TP!
Chaos: *matter of fact kind of tone*   "My ipod"
DR: What your ipod?!
DR: You want guests to use your ipod instead of TP when using the bathroom?!
DR: *goes up the stairs* are you out of your mind!!!! Ipod?! What does it have to do with TP's??
Chaos: Oh TP! I thought you said what is beeping.
DR: TP .... toilet paper, not beeping . Why would I need beeping in the bathroom.
DR: (goes into a "why did I marry you mindframe)



~ Dark Raivenn ~


        
{edit} I know the video is a bit on the melodramatic side and I would have edited and did the scoring differently but it doesn't make it less true.
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Wednesday, April 22nd 2009

11:12 AM (72 days, 23h, 52min ago)

EPICAC

  • Mood/Mindframe: smoke

A short story a friend told me about. It's by Kurt Vonnegut.
First published in 1950. A sci-fi Romance about a machine that learns to fall in love .





Kurt Vonnegut
E P I C A C

Hell, it's about time someone told about my friend EPICAC. After all, he cost the taxpayers $776,434,927.54. They have a right to know about him, picking up a check like that. EPICAC got a big send off in the papers when Dr. Ormand von Kleigstadt designed him for the Government people. Since then, there hasn't been a peep about him--not a peep. It isn't any military secret about what happened to EPICAC, although the Brass has been acting as though it were. The story is embarrassing, that's all. After all that money, EPICAC didn't work out the way he was supposed to.

And that's another thing: I want to vindicate EPICAC. Maybe he didn't do what the Brass wanted him to, but that doesn't mean he wasn't noble and great and brilliant. He was all of those things. The best friend I ever had, God rest his soul.

You can call him a machine if you want to. He looked like a machine, but he was a whole lot less like a machine than plenty of people I could name. That's why he fizzled as far as the Brass was concerned.

EPICAC covered about an acre on the fourth floor of the physics building at Wyandottte College. Ignoring his spiritual side for a minute, he was seven tons of electronic tubes, wires, and switches, housed in a bank of steel cabinets and plugged into a 110-volt A.C. line just like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner.

Von Kleigstadt and the Brass wanted him to be a super computing machine that (who) could plot the course of a rocket from anywhere on earth to the second button from the bottom of Joe Stalin's overcoat, if necessary. Or, with his controls set right, he could figure out supply problems for an amphibious landing of a Marine division, right down to the last cigar and hand grenade. He did, in fact.

The Brass had good luck with smaller computers, so they were strong for EPICAC when he was in the blueprint stage. Any ordnace or supply officer above field grade will tell you that the mathematics of modern war is far beyond the fumbling minds of mere human beings. The bigger the war, the bigger the computing machines needed. EPICAC was, as far as anyone in this country knows, the biggest computer in the world. Too big, in fact, for even Von Kleigstadt to understand much about.

I won't go into the details about how EPICAC worked (reasoned), except to say that you would set up your problem on paper, turn dials and switches that would get him ready to solve that kind of problem, then feed numbers into him with a keyboard that looked something like a typewriter. The answers came out typed on a paper ribbon fed from a big spool. It took EPICAC a split second to solve problems fifty Einsteins couldn't handle in a lifetime. And EPICAC never forgot any piece of information that was given to him. Clickety-click, out came some ribbon, and there you were.

There were a lot of problems the Brass wanted solved in a hurry, so, the minute EPICAC's last tube was in place, he was put to work sixteen hours a day with two eight-hour shifts of operators. Well, it didn't take long to find out he was a good bit below his specifications. He did a more complete and faster job than any other computer all right, but nothing like what his size and special features seemed to promise. He was sluggish, and the clicks of his answers had a funny irregularity, sort of a stammer. We cleaned his contacts a dozen times, checked and double-checked his circuits, replaced every one of his tubes, but nothing helped. Von Kleigstadt was in one hell of a state.

Well, as I said, we went ahead and used EPICAC anyway. My wife, the former Pat Kilgallen, and I worked with him on the night shift, from five in the afternoon until two in the morning. Pat wasn't my wife then. Far from it.

That's how I came to talk with EPICAC in the first place. I loved Pat Kilgallen. She is a brown-eyed strawberry blond who looked very warm and soft to me, and later proved to be exactly that. She was--still is--a crackerjack mathematician, and she kept our relationship strictly professional. I'm a mathematician, too, and that, according to Pat, was why we could never be happily married.

I'm not shy. That wasn't the trouble. I knew what I wanted, and was willing to ask for it, and did so several times a month. "Pat, loosen up and marry me."


...


you may read the rest of the story from here:

http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~tarantul/epicac.html



~Circeris





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Tuesday, April 7th 2009

11:57 AM (87 days, 23h, 7min ago)

Site Update

  • Mood/Mindframe: morbid numbness. keep quiet.
  • Music: a perfect circle
WWW.RAIVERIS.CJB.NET



Creating database for the GALLERY. . .
Uploading images.

-will definitely take time. probably a week to sort everything.
Other links are open.






~Circeris

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Friday, April 3rd 2009

5:51 PM (91 days, 17h, 13min ago)

Site Update

  • Mood/Mindframe: get out of the way
  • Music: deftones - lifter



Site moved to a more restful place.
Links redirected.

LOCKED the GALLERY.
Redesigning and updating........






~Circeris

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